Word: randomly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cover story on William Faulkner [July 17] is a beautiful job-the clearest, fairest, most concise explanation of Faulkner's philosophy and purpose in life that I have ever read. We were proud here at Random House to be his publisher, and I personally considered his friendship a compliment beyond measure. Incidentally, every one of Faulkner's books is now either back in print-for good-or in the course of production...
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...Moore's first experiment, a teacher sitting next to the child repeated the names of the letters as the child typed them at random. Soon the child was able to understand the relationship between the letters on the typewriter keys and their spoken names. Theoretically, simple words and short sentences were to follow. But teachers are human, and some of the children quickly learned how to drive them mad. One young boy, drunk with power, hit the asterisk key on his machine 75 times before the ill-starred teacher, who had been repeating "asterisk, asterisk, asterisk," finally cried uncle...
Boston is an old city, and its streets are random by-ways first trod by Pilgrims' feet. They are narrow, crooked, totally unpredictable. And they often feed into insidious death-traps known as "squares...
...Nothing is ever at random in art," he said. "The persona begins with the name." And while he warned that "Wilson Knight is perhaps over-ingenious" in his derivations, he said that Arnold, who objected to Ruskin's remarks on Ophelia's name, "has no light to throw on Shakespeare and very little sweetness...